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Poetry
Poetry
Innocence Lost
FJ Poetry: Talk of an unhinged jaw sent me plummeting...
Marion Goldstein
Poetry
Ebb Tide
FJ Poetry: "The lake / in my dream / was not the healing one..."
Joan MacIntosh
Poetry
A Visitor
FJ Poetry: "I had no appointment. / Asked to wait half an hour, / I left the office and walked…
Marilyn Churchill
Poetry
Respite
FJ Poetry: A woman walks a field of chores / toward a gate too narrow
Karen Luke Jackson
Poetry
Spilling Claret
FJ Poetry: The perfect vintage had aged thirty-three years / and was poured into the cup of the world.
Kendrick E. Williams
Poetry
A Day of Waiting
FJ Poetry: "Holy Saturday waits / Like a patch of dirt in the lawn / Nothing happening / But shoots, then…
Geoff Knowlton
Poetry
Passages
FJ Poetry: Perhaps my death will be like Dad’s…
Marsha Foss
Poetry
how to be home
FJ Poetry: "site on a wooden stool / naked as an orphan"
Amy Baskin
Poetry
To Fathom
FJ Poetry: "I take each stone into my curious palm. grub-gray, salmon, rounded well and calm."
Diana Cole
Poetry
Rahab
Poetry: "I lived in the wall, between the wilderness / and stony Jericho."
Kristin Camitta Zimet
Poetry
Winter
Poetry: "Starving herself by choice / my mother wanted to know…"
Linda Lee
Poetry
So Far So Safe
FJ Poetry: "I thought I had a can of pineapple / but it’s only apricots / in the cabinet, apricots…
E. K. Gordon
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